Meaning of branchless | Babel Free

Definitions

Without branches; continuing in a single path or piece; without divergence.

not-comparable

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Examples

“Gentle Octavia, Let⟳ your best love⟳ draw⟳ to that point⟳, which seeks Best to preserve⟳ it: if I lose⟳ mine honour, I lose⟳ myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.”

“1866, Mark⟳ Twain, “Equestrian Excursion,” March⟳, 1886, in Letters from the Sandwich Islands Written for the Sacramento Union by Mark⟳ Twain,, Stanford University Press⟳, 1938, p. 40, A mile and a half from town, I came to a grove of tall cocoa-nut trees, with clean⟳, branchless stems reaching straight up sixty or seventy feet and topped with a spray of green foliage sheltering clusters of cocoa-nuts—not more picturesque than a forest of colossal ragged parasols, with bunches of magnified grapes under them, would be.”

“1886, [Henry H. Sweet], Palmistry; or, the Science of Reading the Past, Present⟳ and Future, in the Language of the Hands, New York: The Serial Leaflet Publishing Co., p. 21, One long, clear, branchless line indicates great distinction in some one thing; but if dividing into branches, or accompanied by parallel lines of strength equal to its own⟳, there is danger that multiplicity of aims will strangle success.”

““[…] At the end⟳ of this corridor I shall come⟳ to a spiral runway which I must follow⟳ down instead of up; after that the way is along but a single branchless corridor.””

“These days it looks as though more Americans than ever are willing to let⟳ go. They are traveling through coinless tollbooths, banking at branchless banks, riding in tokenless subways and paying for everything from taxi rides to mortgages with the swipe of a card or the blip of an electronic transfer⟳.”

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